TURNING YOUR DAILY NEWS INTO A SNARKY RANT

Stop the rot (the media rot)

Rupert Murdoch, Fairfax, ABC, SBS and all other Australian media outlets: Stop interfering with the democratic process.

The editorial published in The Age on Saturday, June 22 calling on Prime Minister Julia Gillard to step down, has spurred many of us to express our anger and dismay at the way the mainstream media are manipulating the public.

Like many other Australian voters, we believe that we’re living in the most desperate times that Australia as a nation has ever faced. Nothing less than our precious democracy is at stake.

So far, we haven’t taken to the streets, but we will if necessary. Many Australian voters have found it difficult to believe what’s been happening to us, and to our Prime Minister. But the time has come for us to take action to express our anger and disgust and to demand change.

5. Pressure for Conformity: Members pressure any in the group who express arguments against the group’s stereotypes, illusions, or commitments, viewing such opposition as disloyalty.

6. Self-Censorship: Members withhold their dissenting views and counter-arguments.
7. Illusion of Unanimity: Members perceive falsely that everyone agrees with the group’s decision; silence is seen as consent.

8. Mindguards: Some members appoint themselves to the role of protecting the group from adverse information that might threaten group complacency.

I recall how Miglo was shit scared of having his identity revealed while being an anti-Howard government blogger, while being employed by the Howard govt.

No one in the blogging community betrayed that trust despite a number of us knowing his real life identity during the tenure of his employment.

The fact that, once he retired, he felt fit to reveal my real life identity on his blog while I’m still employed, speaks volumes about his epic lack of morals and ethics, and explains why his online reputation is basically in tatters .

It’s no use listing all the reason that Gillard is legitimately loathed, mistrusted, disbelieved by the electorate. Trust is the first requirement of a leader and without it there is nothing but rancour and double dealing.

People crave an honest leader. Howard got the bullet because of mistrust. Rudd won plenty of support because people trusted him (they still do), Gillard is dishonest, and people hate leaders they don’t trust.

That’s what Miglo and his pack of over the hill sycophants don’t get. It is no wonder Miglo likes Gillard, they have ethical standards in common.

They think the MSM makes shit up, the ‘creation of news as opposed to the reporting of news.’

This is silly, newspapers have always been partisan and their news content reflects their bent. Accurately reported, yet of a different hue.

I think it would be appropriate if the Fairfax stable, SBS and the ABC tell the the truth about CC ‘to allow Australians to have an informed vote.’

They want the media to stop interfering ‘in the democratic process.’ Don’t chase down devious union hacks like Craig Thomson, just turn a blind eye for the greater good, presumably.

As for the PM being ‘demeaned and trivialized in the media,’ Gillard is a clown and deserves the odium heaped upon her. Its has nothing to do with gender and everything to do with her political incompetence.

And just a reminder to the cafe dwellers … the electorate is not stupid.

George Bush Junior had the right idea, keep the media on a tight leash and only give a press conference once a month that was invite only. It saves all the grief of foot in mouth, keeps the oposition at bay with nothing to come back at you.
Even though Julia is on the nose, the constant speculation, poll driven questions, door stop media scrum bullshit does little to inform us about what’s really going on.
So either way no one really seems to know what is going on inside the labour party…do they know themselves?
Speculation and opinion rule, reporters reporting on reporters and reporters reporting on polls tells us little we didn’t already know.
There needs to be a Walkley award for the first reporter that breaks some meaningful news on the whole saga.

The dog got her Droowlia doll today, I’m afraid to say she was only mildly interested in it.
After playing with it for a moment she dropped it and forgot about it.
Her popularity is clearly waning.
Once the Boney Tony doll comes in a couple of weeks I should be able report an accurate outcome for September 14, after all dogs are a good judge of character.

The public isn’t smart enough to discern the truth so must be protected from itself lest it makes uninformed decisions.

Yer doin’ it again, ToSY, you’re playin’ with concepts and words … exactly who’s truth are you defending here and when do you know its true?

Example: The Blues State of Orange team was in a bus crash and their campaign was at risk according to a news.com.au headline … in fact … the bus got caught on a roundabout gutter and the team had to get out and catch taxis … “truth”? or “bullshit”?

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outlander

I await the outcome of your (dog’s) “assessment” with baited breathe …

I think you’ve watched FoxNews et al enough to know that they regularly bemoan what they also call the ‘Mainstream Media’ (read, their ideological adversaries) bias & manipulation.
So it’s hardly just leftist bullshit to try & blame contrary phenomena on unfavourable media. They all do it.

“They all do it.
To me, it’s the last refuge of the encrusted on either side.
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Exactly boss – they do all do it..

But the reality is that most people can see through the BS (otherwise Abbott would be much more popular than he actually is).

But it is funny to watch the so-called “left leaning blogs” elevate themselves to some self-professed intellectualism arguing that they’re somehow the “only ones” who know what’s really going on and the rest of us are just dull sheep religiously believing everything the MSM says…